Sheffield, University of, BA (Hons), English Language and Literature

Year 1: Introduction to advanced literary studies; practical stylistics; the sounds of English; the structure of English; history of English; Shakespeare and renaissance drama; varieties of English. Year 2: 'a field of dreams': American culture and sports; a sense of place: local and regional identity; American dissent; art and tradition; British theatre from 1945 to 1968; Chaucer's comic tales; classical hollywood: history and practice; contemporary poetry; creating poetry: craft and imagination; criticism and literary theory; devising performance; dramaturgy; European gothic; introduction to old English; introduction to post-colonial literatures in English; Irish writing 1899-1929; language and power; language politics and language policy; lexicology; love and death: the films of Woody Allen; magic realist fiction; morphology; old English: language, texts and culture; phonetics; reception and contexts of theatre; renaissance literature; representing the holocaust; representing the holocaust; restoration and 18th century literature; road journeys in American culture: 1930-2000; roots-routes: 8 things to do with a text; satire and print in the eighteenth century; sociolinguistics; syntax 1; terrorism and modern literature; the history of persuasion; the romantic period; working class culture after 1900. Year 3: 'a field of dreams': American culture and sports; advanced stylistics; Afro-American literature 2: 1940 to the present; Afro-American literature to 1940; aids cultures; America and the avant-garde, 1950s-1990s; animal writes: beasts and humans in twentieth century literature; British theatre from 1968 to the present; Charles Dickens; coming out in novels: gay and lesbian fiction since 1945; contemporary literature; crime and transgression in romantic literature; criticism and literary theory 2; dialect in literature and song; dissertation; dissertation; dystopias/utopias; English folklore: language, literature and history; European silent cinema; full-year dissertation; generative approaches to language acquisition; history of linguistics; language and gender; language change; later modern English 1700-1945; literature of descent; modern Irish poetry; modern literature; multi-culturalism and the contemporary novel; phonology; semantics, pragmatics and discourse; South African literatures; special subject; syntax 3; syntax 3; teaching English to speakers of other languages; texts in contemporary performance; the novella and the uncanny; theories of language and literature; traditions of supernatural belief; Tudor English; uncanny film; Victorian literature; women, crime and justice; writing fiction; writing for radio; writing in enlightenment Britain, 1745 to 1796; writing the English civil war.